Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON FINDING A FAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one who felt as once he felt Last Line: Its former warmth around another. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Fans; Houson, Anne | ||||||||
IN one who felt as once he felt, This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame; But now his heart no more will melt, Because that heart is not the same. As when the ebbing flames are low, The aid which once improved their light And bade them burn with fiercer glow, Now quenches all their blaze in night, Thus has it been with passion's fires -- As many a boy and girl remembers -- While every hope of love expires, Extinguish'd with the dying embers. The first, though not a spark survive, Some careful hand may teach to burn; The last, alas! can ne'er survive, No touch can bid its warmth return. Or, if it chance to wake again, Not always doom'd its heat to smother, It sheds (so wayward fates ordain) Its former warmth around another. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO ANNE (1) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO ANNE (2) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A FRAGMENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON CHURCHILL'S GRAVE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DARKNESS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DON JUAN: CANTO 1 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION] by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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